Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Weekly Homily for First Sunday in Advent

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Pope Francis plans synodal shake-up by Christopher Lamb in The Tablet The next synod of bishops gathering in Rome has been postponed until 2023 so that an unprecedented consultation of Catholics can…

Sarah Mac Donald writes in the National Catholic Reporter about how research of Artifacts show that early church women served as clergy.
“New research recently unveiled in Rome suggests women had a greater role in the early church’s ministries and liturgies than previously thought and were present at church altars as deacons, priests and even bishops.
Ally Kateusz, research associate at the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, presented her findings July 2 to the International Society of Biblical Literature, drawing on iconography from ancient Christian art.”

The Irish Child & Family Institute (ICFI) was established in 2006 with the goal of providing independent child welfare and psycho-social services to a variety of statutory and non- statutory…

Prof. Thomas O’Loughlin suggests a home liturgy for celebrating Ascension Day.
Perhaps consideration could be given this year to celebrating Ascension on Thursday, 21 May – the day that is forty days after Easter Sunday?

Have we some keys to the discussion at Caesarea Philippi?
Pádraig McCarthy